Edmond O'Brien

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1984 review by A customer from London

Somewhat dated but still powerful 23 November 2008
...rly. This film is well worth seeing because of the outstanding performances by Edmond O'Brien as Winston and Michael Redgrave as O'Connor. ... Read customer review

The Killers review by from UK

Hard-boiled par excellence..... 11 June 2007
...or sharp as a fighter-turned-thug, Ava Gardner is icy cold as the femme fatale, Edmond O'Brien is the dogged insurance investigator and William Conrad plays one of the hitmen... Read customer review

Call Harry Crown (1974)
Starring: Richard Harris, Edmond O'Brien, Bradford Dillman
Director: John Frankenheimer
Certificate:
Elderly mobster Edmond O'Brien hires a hit man to eliminate his rival. There are albino alligators, skilful chase scenes, and Chuck Connors as a one-handed psycho who can fit various deadly weapons on his stumpy arm.

20% from 2 members
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The Killers (1964)
Starring: Angie Dickinson, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster
Director: Don Siegel, Robert Siodmak
Certificate:
based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. Don Siegel builds another whole world around Hemingway's premise. The two assassins of Siegel's film go in search of their intended victim - a teacher at a school for the blind - and find that he not only recognises his fate when they show up, but seems ..read more »

70% from 74 members
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Up Periscope (1959)
Starring: James Garner, Edmond O'Brien, Andra Martin
Director: Gordon Douglas
Certificate:
World War Two submarine drama.

39% from 22 members
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1984 on DVD (1956)
Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, Michael Redgrave
Director: Michael Anderson
Certificate:
After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is the capital of Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with ..read more »

59% from 278 members

The Bigamist on DVD (1953)
Starring: Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn
Director: Ida Lupino
Certificate:
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A salesman marries a wealthy woman from a blue-blooded L.A. family (Fontaine) and a street-smart waitress in a San Francisco Chinese restaurant. Driven to this agonizing extreme more by his big heart than lust, the bigamist strains to keep his double life a secret from the women he truly loves. ..read more »

60% from 90 members

Julius Caesar (1953)
Starring: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Certificate:
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.

77% from 50 members
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White Heat on DVD (1949)
Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Virginia Mayo
Director: Raoul Walsh
Certificate:
After robbing a mail coach of $300,000 and murdering four men in the process, Cody Jarrett (Jimmy Cagney) and his gang hide away in a mountain log cabin. Cody is so attached to his Ma (Margaret Wycherly), he neglects his wife Verna (Virginia Mayo), on whom Big Ed (Steve Cochran) has designs. Ed ..read more »

79% from 1,575 member

For The Love Of Mary on DVD (1948)
Starring: Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, Harry Davenport
Director: Frederick De Cordova
Certificate:
A perky switchboard operator for the White House makes not one but three love connections, and her attampts to keep each Romeo on the line leads to a lot of crossed wires....

57% from 99 members

The Killers on DVD (1946)
Starring: Angie Dickinson, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster
Director: Don Siegel, Robert Siodmak
Certificate:
A former fighter awaits the arrival of his executioners. When they arrive they shoot him dead without a fight. An insurance investigator must decide why it is that a man gave up his life so easily...

75% from 386 members

The Amazing Mrs Holliday on DVD (1943)
Starring: Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, Barry Fitzgerald
Director: Bruce Manning, Jean Renoir
Certificate:
Deanna Durbin stars as the daughter of Christian Missionaries in war torn China in this moving and intensely dramatic film favourite. Forced to flee after the Japanese invaders arrive, Ruth Kirke (Deanna Durbin) tries to save as many orphaned Chinese children as she can. She bundles them on board ..read more »

59% from 127 members

Call Harry Crown - 1.0 stars
The Killers - 3.5 stars
Up Periscope - 2.0 stars
1984 - 3.0 stars
The Bigamist - 3.0 stars

White Heat - 4.0 stars
The Killers - 4.0 stars
The Killers - 3.5 stars
The Bigamist - 3.0 stars
1984 - 3.0 stars

Call Harry Crown - 1.0 stars
Up Periscope - 2.0 stars
Julius Caesar - 4.0 stars
For The Love Of Mary - 3.0 stars
The Amazing Mrs Holliday - 3.0 stars

Burt Lancaster - 2 times - show films
Ava Gardner - 2 times - show films
Deanna Durbin - 2 times - show films
Angie Dickinson - 2 times - show films
Joan Fontaine - 2 times - show films

Robert Siodmak - 4 times - show films
Don Siegel - 3 times - show films
Ida Lupino - 2 times - show films
Bruce Manning - 1 times - show films
Jean Renoir - 1 times - show films